Publications

33 selected papers, focused on the last 3 years ·Full list on Google Scholar →

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2026

  1. ArtSociety: Multi-Agent Multimodal Collaboration for Art Emotion UnderstandingFirst author
    Jian Li, Fan Ji, Jun Lai, Ying Tai, Jian Yang, Xiaotong Yuan, Chengjie Wang, Yabiao Wang
    arXiv preprintarXiv
    • Agent
    • MLLM
  2. SE-Search: Self-Evolving Search Agent via Memory and Dense RewardFirst author
    Jian Li, Yizhang Jin, Dongqi Liu, Hang Ding, Jiafu Wu, Dongsheng Chen, Yunhang Shen, Yulei Qin, Ying Tai, Chengjie Wang, Xiaotong Yuan, Yabiao Wang
    arXiv preprintarXiv
    • Agent
    • RL
    • RAG
  3. Improving Search Agent with One Line of CodeFirst author
    Jian Li, Dongsheng Chen, Zhenhua Xu, Yizhang Jin, Jiafu Wu, Chengjie Wang, Xiaotong Yuan, Yabiao Wang
    arXiv preprintarXiv
    • Agent
    • RAG
  4. TGPO: Efficient Policy Optimization through Sequence Anchor and Information Gating
    Hang Ding, Dongqi Liu, Qiming Feng, Jian Li, Tong Lei, Jiafu Wu, Shuo Wang, Jiangning Zhang, Chengjie Wang, Yabiao Wang
    ICML 2026PMLR
    • RL
    • LLM
  5. RoleArena: A Multi-Agent Role-Playing Environment for Long Multi-Turn Dialogues with Autonomous Plot Progression
    Qi Zhao, Jian Li, Yizhang Jin, Dongqi Liu, Hang Ding, Qi Song, Xiangyang Li
    EMNLP 2026PDF
    • Agent
    • LLM
  6. AdaMARP: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Interaction Framework for General Immersive Role-Playing
    Zhenhua Xu, Dongsheng Chen, Shuo Wang, Jian Li, Chengjie Wang, Meng Han, Yabiao Wang
    Findings of ACL 2026arXiv
    • Agent
    • LLM
  7. Disco-RAG: Discourse-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Dongqi Liu, Hang Ding, Qiming Feng, Xurong Xie, Zhucun Xue, Chengjie Wang, Jian Li, Jiangning Zhang, Yabiao Wang
    ACL 2026arXiv
    • RAG
    • LLM
  8. VITA-Audio: Fast Interleaved Audio-Text Token Generation for Efficient Large Speech-Language Model
    Zuwei Long, Yunhang Shen, Chaoyou Fu, Heting Gao, Lijiang Li, Peixian Chen, Mengdan Zhang, Hang Shao, Jian Li, Jinlong Peng, et al.
    NeurIPS 2026arXiv
    • MLLM
    • Speech
  9. LLM-Oriented Token-Adaptive Knowledge Distillation
    Xurong Xie, Zhucun Xue, Jiafu Wu, Jian Li, Yabiao Wang, Xiaobin Hu, Yong Liu, Jiangning Zhang
    AAAI 2026Cited by 16
    • LLM
    • Efficient
  10. LLaVA-MR: Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Video Moment RetrievalCorresponding author
    Weiheng Lu, Jian Li, An Yu, Ming-Ching Chang, Shengpeng Ji, Min Xia
    ICPR 2026Cited by 22arXiv
    • MLLM
    • Video
  11. Dr.V: A Hierarchical Perception-Temporal-Cognition Framework to Diagnose Video Hallucination by Fine-Grained Spatial-Temporal Grounding
    Mingyi Luo, Shuo Wu, Longbiao Jing, Tianshui Ju, Lei Zheng, Jun Lai, Tao Wu, Xinyi Du, Jian Li, Shanshan Yan, Jiebo Luo, et al.
    IJCV 2026
    • MLLM
    • Video
  12. SMART: Shot-Aware Multimodal Video Moment Retrieval with Audio-Enhanced MLLM
    An Yu, Weiheng Lu, Jian Li, Zenghui Zhang, Yixuan Shen, Francis X. F. Ye, Ming-Ching Chang
    IEEE TMM 2026
    • MLLM
    • Video
  13. Active Dataset Distillation via Dual-Space Informative Matching
    Ding Qi, Jian Li, Shuguang Dou, Jingyu Gao, Yabiao Wang, Bo Zhao, Jun Wan, Chunzhi Zhao
    IEEE TIP 2026
    • Dataset Distillation
  14. Towards Fine-Grained Vision-Language Alignment for Few-Shot Anomaly Detection
    Yilin Fan, Jun Liu, Xu Chen, Bin-Bin Gao, Jian Li, Yong Liu, Jinlong Peng, Chengjie Wang
    Pattern Recognition 2026
    • MLLM
    • Anomaly Detection

2025

  1. Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models: A SurveyCo-first author
    Yizhang Jin, Jian Li, Yexin Liu, Tianjun Gu, Kai Wu, Zhengkai Jiang, Muyang He, Bo Zhao, Xin Tan, Zhenye Gan, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang, Lizhuang Ma
    Visual Intelligence 2025Cited by 254arXivGitHub
    • MLLM
    • Efficient
    • Survey
  2. MMAD: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models in Industrial Anomaly DetectionCorresponding author
    Xi Jiang, Jian Li, Hanqiu Deng, Yong Liu, Bin-Bin Gao, Yifeng Zhou, Jialin Li, Chengjie Wang, Feng Zheng
    ICLR 2025Cited by 148arXiv
    • MLLM
    • Benchmark
    • Anomaly Detection
  3. A Survey on AI Search with Large Language ModelsFirst author
    Jian Li, Xiaoxi Li, Yan Zheng, Yizhang Jin, Shuo Wang, Jiafu Wu, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang, Xiaotong Yuan
    Preprints 2025Cited by 4Awesome-AI-Search
    • Agent
    • RAG
    • Survey
  4. Unveiling the Ignorance of MLLMs: Seeing Clearly, Answering Incorrectly
    Yexin Liu, Zhengyang Liang, Yueze Wang, Xianfeng Wu, Feilong Tang, Muyang He, Jian Li, Zheng Liu, Harry Yang, Ser-Nam Lim, et al.
    CVPR 2025Cited by 48
    • MLLM
    • Benchmark
  5. Towards Universal Dataset Distillation via Task-Driven Diffusion
    Ding Qi, Jian Li, Jingyu Gao, Shuguang Dou, Ying Tai, Jianlong Hu, Bo Zhao, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang, Chunzhi Zhao
    CVPR 2025Cited by 7
    • Dataset Distillation
  6. From Zero to Detail: Deconstructing Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration from Progressive Spectral Perspective
    Chen Zhao, Zhizhou Chen, Yunzhe Xu, Enxuan Gu, Jian Li, Zili Yi, Qian Wang, Jian Yang, Ying Tai
    CVPR 2025Cited by 38
    • Low-level Vision
  7. Multi-Task Visual Grounding with Coarse-to-Fine Consistency Constraints
    Ming Dai, Jian Li, Jiedong Zhuang, Xian Zhang, Wankou Yang
    AAAI 2025Cited by 43
    • MLLM
    • Visual Grounding
  8. MAP: Parameter-Efficient Tuning for Referring Expression Comprehension via Multi-Modal Adaptive Positional Encoding
    Ruilin Yao, Yu Rong, Teng Zou, Bo Zhang, Jian Li, Shenrong Xiong, Shuang Xiong
    ACM MM 2025Cited by 5
    • MLLM
    • Efficient
  9. BoxSeg: Quality-Aware and Peer-Assisted Learning for Box-Supervised Instance Segmentation
    Jun Lai, Wenjia Wu, Jian Zhan, Jian Li, Bin-Bin Gao, Jun Liu, Jiangning Zhang, Shanyang Guo
    ACM MM 2025Cited by 2
    • Segmentation
  10. Swin DiT: Diffusion Transformer using Pseudo Shifted Windows
    Jiafu Wu, Yabiao Wang, Jian Li, Jinlong Peng, Yun Cao, Chengjie Wang, Jiangning Zhang
    arXiv preprintarXiv
    • Generation
    • Efficient

2024

  1. A Survey on Benchmarks of Multimodal Large Language ModelsFirst author
    Jian Li, Weiheng Lu, Hao Fei, Meng Luo, Ming Dai, Min Xia, Yizhang Jin, Zhenye Gan, Ding Qi, Chaoyou Fu, Ying Tai, et al.
    arXiv preprintCited by 235arXivGitHub
    • MLLM
    • Benchmark
    • Survey
  2. WavChat: A Survey of Spoken Dialogue Models
    Shengpeng Ji, Yifu Chen, Minghui Fang, Jialong Zuo, Jingyu Lu, Hanting Wang, Zhengdong Jiang, Long Zhou, Shujie Liu, ... Jian Li, et al.
    arXiv preprintCited by 137arXiv
    • Speech
    • Survey
  3. Fetch and Forge: Efficient Dataset Condensation for Object Detection
    Ding Qi, Jian Li, Jinlong Peng, Bo Zhao, Shuguang Dou, Jialin Li, Jiangning Zhang, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang, Chunzhi Zhao
    NeurIPS 2024Cited by 18
    • Dataset Distillation
    • Detection
  4. Spider: Any-to-Many Multimodal LLM
    Jun Lai, Jiangning Zhang, Jun Liu, Jian Li, Xiangtai Lu, Shanyang Guo
    arXiv preprintCited by 10arXiv
    • MLLM
  5. LLaVA-VSD: Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Visual Spatial Description
    Yizhang Jin, Jian Li, Jiangning Zhang, Jianlong Hu, Zhenye Gan, Xin Tan, Yong Liu, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang, Lizhuang Ma
    ACM MM 2024Cited by 12
    • MLLM

2023

  1. Rethinking Mobile Block for Efficient Attention-based Models (EMO)
    Jiangning Zhang, Xiangtai Li, Jian Li, Liang Liu, Zhucun Xue, Boshen Zhang, Zhengkai Jiang, Tianxin Huang, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang
    ICCV 2023Cited by 473
    • Efficient
    • Backbone

2021

  1. ASFD: Automatic and Scalable Face DetectorFirst author
    Jian Li, Bin Zhang, Yabiao Wang, Ying Tai, Zhenyu Zhang, Chengjie Wang, Jilin Li, Xiaoming Huang, Yili Xia
    ACM MM 2021Cited by 65
    • Face Detection
    • NAS

2020

  1. Fast Learning of Temporal Action Proposal via Dense Boundary Generator (DBG)
    Chuming Lin, Jian Li, Yabiao Wang, Ying Tai, Donghao Luo, Zhipeng Cui, Chengjie Wang, Jilin Li, Feiyue Huang, Rongrong Ji
    AAAI 2020Cited by 274
    • Temporal Action Detection

2019

  1. DSFD: Dual Shot Face DetectorFirst author · Most cited
    Jian Li, Yabiao Wang, Changan Wang, Ying Tai, Jianjun Qian, Jian Yang, Chengjie Wang, Jilin Li, Feiyue Huang
    CVPR 2019Cited by 711GitHub
    • Face Detection